Sounds like Hank Williams Jr. is ready for some apologizing. Wait, make that a lot of apologizing.

The clearly chastened country singer has offered yet another mea culpa, after a comment he made comparing Pres. Barack Obama to Adolf Hitler prompted ESPN to pull his intro from "Monday Night Football."

In the movie Dr. Strangelove Brig. Gen. Jack T. Ripper, the wing commander of a nuclear bomb-armed B-52 wing determined that the Communists had infiltrated the U.S. and contaminated "our precious bodily fluids" with fluoride in the water supply.

He was willing to take the country to war, using a loophole called "Wing Attack Plan R" that allowed individual bomb wing commanders to autonomously launch an attack on the Soviet Union, if they felt that the national command structure had been compromised. The Soviets, fearing such an attack during the Cold War, had designed a doomsday device that would blow up the entire world if they were bombed.

Ignoring all consequences, Ripper was so concerned about the purity of essence of the water supply that he illegally launched the attack and destroyed the world in doing so.

Many conservatives are Jack T. Ripper Republicans today. And Mitt Romney is their Doomsday device.

Texas Rep. Ron Paul (R) offered support for some of the Occupy Wall Street protests that have built up in lower Manhattan over the weekend in an interview Friday with Reason magazine, where he also denounced the “militarization of our police forces.”

“If they were demonstrating peacefully, and making a point, and arguing our case, and drawing attention to the Fed — I would say, good!” Paul said following a town-hall meeting in New Hampshire.

Paul has long been an outspoken critic of the Federal Reserve, which he says manipulates American currency and is excessively secretive.

Paul was asked by Reason about a report from last weekend in which an NYPD officer was caught on camera pepper-spraying protesters.

“I hadn’t heard that, since I have to admit I didn’t keep up on all the details of it,” Paul said. “I didn’t read the stories about it. But that means government doesn’t like to be receiving any criticism at all. And my argument is, government should be in the open — the people’s privacy ought to be protected. So I don’t like it.”....................MORE.....*****

Article deals with Obama's plan to slash military benefits to help 'balance the budget.' Would include slashing or abolishing military retirement pensions and would make both active duty/family and retiree health insurance much costlier.

To get back to the core theme of this article, how did freedomphobia take root so perniciously in a freedom loving country like America? The short answer is, through the stealthy, long-term spread of secularism, political correctness, polymorphous perversity, relativism, and various Marxist/Fascist teachings—aided and abetted by a leftist media, and an American populace that was largely asleep at the wheel.

As far as the “asleep at the wheel” thing goes, I stand guilty as charged. Like millions of Americans, I was blissfully unaware that the federal government had turned into Frankenstein’s monster, and was about to run amok in the village.

It was not until a couple of months into Obama’s term as POTUS that faint alarm bells started going off in the distance—soon to be replaced by a deafening foghorn next to my head—WAKE UP! Like many of you, I started to research into what was going on, and thought to myself “Holy-moly, things are way worse than I realized” (my thinking comes out grammatically unedited)............MORE...*****

The world is filled with curious questions. Why are we here? Why do we hate tomatoes but love ketchup? Why do Americans love crossovers? Why are there 150 brand-new 1997 Dodge Neon models with zero miles on the odometer up for sale in Singapore?

Sen. Marco Rubio's parents were not naturalized at the time of his birth. Is he a "natural born Citizen?"

I heard you the other day say that Marco Rubio was a natural born Citizen, period, end of story. You were very exercised over the issue.

Marco Rubio is NOT a ‘natural born Citizen‘. The ONLY place in the Constitution, or in any of the amendments where that phrase is used is in Article II, Section 1. You know that. It was meant to be a unique requirement of someone who would be President, or Vice President............MORE.....*****

At 87 Slim Whitman is still around (though he heard rumours of his own death in 2008) but in the early 50s he was very big on the US country scene. In America he had faded in the charts by the end of the decade but he was always popular in Europe and frequently toured there...........MORE.....

Today, CBS News reporter Sharyl Attkisson was on the Laura Ingraham show to discuss new documents that show Attorney General Eric Holder was briefed about Operation Fast and Furious as early as July 2010, which contradict Holder’s Congressional testimony on May 3 when he said, “I’m not sure of the exact date, but I probably heard about Fast and Furious for the first time over the last few weeks.”

Attkisson revealed that she had been yelled and screamed at by the Justice Department and White House spokesmen for asking about what Holder knew and when he knew it.

1:31 – In between the yelling that I received from Justice Department yesterday............MORE..........*****

By Al Benson Jr. Book reviews are something I have enjoyed reading and writing over the years, although I don’t consider myself especially good at writing them. On and off folks have sent me copies of their books to review and when I get one that looks like a good read I try to take the time to do a reading and review that I can hopefully get published somewhere to help them out.

The book Donnie Kennedy and I have recently had published by Pelican Publishing Co., “Lincoln’s Marxists,” has gotten a couple good reviews on Amazon.com which I enjoyed reading. We recently had another review of our book that was somewhat less than everything you could hope for, but, given the nature of the subject, I guess that is to be expected. The review was published by an outfit called Book News Inc.

which is out of Portland, Oregon. The reviewer majors on the minor of the two different names Donnie and I give to the “late unpleasantness.” He says we “argue between themselves over whether the US Civil War should be called The War of Southern Independence or the War of Northern Aggression.”

I don’t ever recall an argument between us over this and the two names are not mutually exclusive of one another. The “War of Southern Independence” most certainly..............
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President Obama’s re-election team is attempting to mobilize grassroots support for his jobs bill on Twitter, as he pitches the plan in Dallas today.

The new initiative, which the Obama campaign calls “Tweet for Jobs,” features an interactive website that helps users send messages directly to Republican members of Congress by simply entering their zip code and picking from a list of pre-scripted tweets.

(Oct. 4, 2011) — The Quisling, socialism/fascism, history - What is a Quisling and what does Socialism mean to you as an American? What is the history of Socialism?

Why is it so hard to understand the extremely negative nature of such an abysmal and failed philosophy for governance of humans? A look to the not-too-distant past will shed enough light where even the most ardent Progressive will understand, or should. Beware, are we doomed to repeat history?................MORE.............*****

The war on terror that former U.S. President George W. Bush declared following the 9/11 attacks has been criticised for being incompatible with American traditions. Yet a new doctoral thesis from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, shows that his decisions, actions and ideas really did not differ much from previous U.S foreign policy.

'The Bush administration is just one of many that have used these types of situations to expand the U.S. influence in the world,' says Frida Stranne, author of the thesis.

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'His notion of preventive warfare was new, but his use of 9/11 to strengthen the U.S. dominance in the world is clearly just another example of a U.S. administration that has used a certain event for this purpose. The role of financial interests, ideologies, lies and exaggerated threats in U.S. foreign policy is not by any means new,' says Stranne.

Moran served for nine years in the U.S. Air Force until his honorable discharge in August 2011 following several years spent as a civilian, preceded by four years in the U.S. Marines.

Moran reported that another person from “up north” has joined him in Washington, DC in a motion of solidarity regarding concerns about the authenticity of Obama’s birth certificate and other issues about which Obama might have lied.

He stated that he called the Secret Service after he was joined by the supporter in order to make public what he is doing, as “things have changed” since receiving the physical support of another person. “A couple people have indicated maybe sending support of a little bit of money; not anything significant, but it can help. I hope others will consider that if God leads them.”

Moran has also made contact with someone who calls himself “Captain America” with whom he will speak again on October 4.

Moran and his supporter do not know how long they will stay in Washington. However, he indicated that they will be meeting with a congressional staffer on Tuesday, October 4. He described a document which he had distributed to numerous parties which The Post & Email published here.....MORE..........*****

Tuesday morning on AM Tampa Bay on 970 WFLA, Vice President Joe Biden was asked by Jack Harris about the Occupy Wall Street Movement. The VP said "I really don't know about the Van Jones group, except what I read in the press." The group is currently protesting in New York City against the social and economic inequality, corporate greed and the influence of corporate money and lobbyists on government.

Later in his response in talking about the frustration seen in the Tea Party and the Occupy Wall Street Group, Biden said "you have on the one end Van Jones' guys, whoever he is, talking about Wall Street." Jack Harris and Tedd Webb stopped him to tell him he had previously been "Green Czar" in the administration. The VP responded, "Oh is that... alright"

Only after Mr. Obama came to office did it start to become clear that contempt would be both a style and method of his governance. Take the "mess we have inherited" line, which became the administration's ring tone for its first two years.

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for a president to rail for years against a predecessor of any party is crass—and something to which neither Reagan nor Lincoln, each of them inheritors of much bigger messes, stooped.

Then again, the contempt Mr. Obama felt for the Bush administration was merely of a piece with the broader ambit of his disdain. Examples? Here's a quick list:

The gratuitous return of the Churchill bust to Britain. The slam of the Boston police officer who arrested Henry Louis Gates.

The high-profile rebuke of the members of the Supreme Court at his 2010 State of the Union speech.

The diplomatic snubs, petty as well as serious, of Gordon Brown, Benjamin Netanyahu and Nicolas Sarkozy.

The verbal assaults on Wall Street "fat cats" who "caused the problem" of "10% unemployment."

The never-ending baiting of millionaires and billionaires and jet owners and everyone else who, as Black Entertainment Television's Robert Johnson memorably put it on Sunday, "tried rich and tried poor and like rich better."

A friend of mine just got a Visio WiFi TV. He set it up according to instructions and it will stream from the WiFi but only what is listed on the "Widgets." He would like to be able to go to a regular website like HULU or GBTV and stream from there like he can do on his computer.

We looked around on what is available for download but couldn't find a browser anywhere. I can connect my laptop and use the TV like a monitor but that kind of defeats the purpose of having an internet TV.

The bully is now the bullied. The ACLU has traded one master (liberalism) for another – Islam. They are far more frightened of their new masters’ swords than Christians’ pens. The ACLU has tipped its hand giving us positive proof of what we always thought they were: feckless twerps and enemies of our freedoms.

Since their pinup girl Madelyn Murray O’Hare forced God out of our government schools, the ACLU has been on a relentless crusade to “cleanse” our public and private lives of anything THEY deem violations of their idea of the relationship between Church and State.

If a high school football team in Texas wants to pray before a game, the ACLU is right there threatening a costly lawsuit against the school, the school district and the coach as an individual defendant. They seem never to miss an opportunity to destroy the influence of God and promote atheism using intimidation as their weapon of choice.

There are differences of philosophy between progressives and libertarians, but we CAN agree on at least four issues upon which we can make immediate and concrete demands. Success on these demands would go a very long way toward saving the United States and prevent us from falling deeper into serfdom and slavery.

Democrats sure do you use the word "racist" a lot... mostly when talking about Republicans, but especially the Tea Party. Do they even know what it means anymore? It's certainly a loaded word that incites a lot of emotion. That's their reason for using it. Nobody wants to be labeled a "racist." But what is a racist?

The actual definition is a person who believes in racism, the doctrine that a certain human race is superior to any or all others. So, when Democrats throw around the word "racist" as much as they do, are they suggesting that Republicans and Tea Partiers think they are superior to other races?

If so, how do they reconcile the fact that the Republican Party and Tea Party are made up by people of all races? Or are they just looking to use any means necessary to attempt to gain political control in this country?...............MORE.....

President Barack Obama said Monday he does not regret a $528 million loan to a solar energy company that later collapsed, saying officials always knew a clean energy loan program would not back winners 100 percent of the time.

"There are going to be some failures, and Solyndra's an example," Obama said in a television interview, referring to a California solar panel maker that declared bankruptcy last month and laid off its 1,100 workers. The company's failure has become a rallying cry for critics of Obama's clean energy program who say the government should not try to predict winners and losers in the volatile renewable energy market.

Obama disputed that, saying China is pouring "hundreds of billions of dollars into this space." If the United States wants to compete with China, Germany and other countries that are heavily subsidizing clean energy, "we've got to make sure that our guys here in the United States of America at least have a shot," Obama said.

Obama, in an interview with ABC News, was asked whether his administration had ignored warnings about Solyndra, as some congressional Republicans assert.

First Lady Michelle Obama said at a fundraiser in Providence, Rhode Island, on Friday night that a bank where Barack Obama’s grandmother had worked discriminated against her for nearly two decades “because she was a woman.”

However, the Washington Post reported earlier this year that Obama’s grandmother, Madelyn Dunham, had been the first female vice president of the Bank of Hawaii.

Meanwhile, Barack and Michelle Obamas’ 2009 tax return, posted on the White House website, indicates the Obamas inherited almost $500,000 worth of the bank’s stock from the president’s grandmother.

The U.S. Constitution requires that the President and Commander-in-Chief be a “natural born Citizen“

Proverbs 14:34, “Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people.”

The sitting President of the United States, whom many Americans conclude evidentially is illegal and ineligible and a usurper, has shown no interest in the fear of God or leading our nation righteously. The reproach felt is burdensome to those with a fear of God and a desire to be irreproachable before HIM.

In this light, I came to Washington DC saying I would personally arrest B. Obama for the crime of forgery of his birth certificate. The Secret Service says I cannot and will get nowhere near him...........*****

Never dreamed poop could get you blazing down the asphalt? Well, now it all comes true as Japan's biggest toilet maker, TOTO, takes the toilet on the road with its launch of the Toilet Bike Neo, a bike that's powered entirely by human waste. The bike runs on biogas converted from feces that is harvested directly from the driver -- who sits on the bike's toilet-styled seat.

Hello FRiends. Lately I've noticed that whenever I have a question about something, my first impulse is to look it up on FR. Anyway, that explains this vanity.

Do any FReepers (guys) have experience giving themselves a haircut? My hair grows faster'n a weed and I don't care to waste time and money constantly running to the barber. Plus my hair is thick, coarse, and wavy, so once it gets even moderately long I end up looking either like the 'Hall' in Hall and Oates, or else a 1950's greaser. Not pretty.

I have an electric clipper with a few attachments. I'm not shooting for anything spectacular, just looking for tips on how to get the back, avoid gouging clumps out, etc.

“A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.” Mark Twain (attributed)

Recently, Herman Cain made the comment that, “Many African-Americans have been brainwashed into not being open-minded, not even considering a conservative point of view.” For this statement he was vilified, especially by the black liberal establishment. It may have been imprudent for him to say, especially if he wishes to garner a significant portion of the black vote, but it is the truth. Blacks have been brainwashed by the myth of the Southern Strategy.

There was a point in our history in which the black community voted overwhelmingly Republican. After all, the first Republican President, Abraham Lincoln, freed the slaves. During the reconstruction period, blacks elected to federal office were all Republicans. President Johnson had to appeal to Congressional Republicans for passage of civil rights legislation as the majority of Democrats opposed it.

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